Howdy guys and gals! Welcome back to the Social Regressive where we're continuing
to test 224 diameter projectiles against ballistics gel; not just at close range
like a lot of people test. No, we're starting at a hundred yards and then we
are working our way back to see how these perform in realistic scenarios
we've gone out hog hunting before and our closest distance on any of these has
been right around I think a hundred and fifty yards and then they kind of
stretched out just a little bit from there we did have problems with the
projectile that you're gonna see behind me right here this is a BTHP match projectile at
75 grains I was figuring that this would probably work pretty well for hogs since
it does have you know pretty high sectional density it's you know a little
bit longer projectile it's gonna be carrying more energy downrange but I think the
problem that we were running into is that these were behaving like FMJs like
Full Metal Jacket projectiles and that they were just cruising right through the
target if they were tumbling they might have actually been tumbling just after
they left the other side of the animal we're gonna find out here today and see
how these perform especially at different distances I'm kind of curious
to see how these work we've been contrasting these with the
Speer gold projectiles that's a 55 grain a 62 and a 75 and those have all been
performing really well in the gel let's see how these do the hollow-point that
you see should not actually perform like a hollow-point it's not designed to this
should actually act like an FMJ that's one of the reasons why these are just
fine for the military to use in some of their specialty rifles like the mark 12
so yeah these are it's it's a wonderfully efficient projectile as you can
see it has a boat tail it has a really long seek and ogive the powder that
we're using is Alliant mm mr this performs a lot like reloader 15 it
should have the same burn rate but this has all kinds of special tricks up its
sleeve like it should be very consistent in all kinds of temperatures and
different conditions that you might have and so far it's been working very well
with all the projectiles that we've been playing with any weights at all this is
gonna be my go to powder for 223 from now on I think
this is a real shocker you guys I'm sorry for the overlap on some of these
hits I'll point out which is which I had a scope mount come loose I was
hoping to keep these a bit further apart but yeah we we kind of clustered them up
but here's what happens the BTHP match is this light-colored thin wound panel a
path right here and you can see that it goes about two inches and then it
suddenly flares out in a big way it looks just like those gold dots except
you know how long it takes to actually open up and it has a gigantic wound
channel not too far in you can see that the projectile has also despite its heavy
weight it has come to rest at about 14 inches and has separated into two parts
so back see you're right back in there that is the LED core down inside there
that has mushroomed beautifully and this is the jacket that has separated and
here's the wild part guys I keep hearing about how these projectiles are supposed to
not act like hollow points I suppose act like FM jays nope
at least at these speeds at a hundred yards this has acted just like a hunting
FMJ and this would produce a massive wound channel so I guess here's the big
thing maybe this isn't big enough for hog maybe 223 overall I just can't
really do it but no I've seen video to prove otherwise and it looks like these
projectiles perform right in there with some of these gold dots sorta you
can see that it does dump all of its energy relatively quickly big wound
channel over all the gold dots mushroom much more quickly so I think they're apt
to cause more damage up close and you know especially if you have game that
isn't you know so big that it's not going to be wasting energy yeah it
should all these should perform actually quite well I'm shocked
coming in just a little bit past 13 inches we have the Hornady BTHP match I
was shocked by this these actually do work like a regular hollow-point you can
see the the jacket right there that has been emptied of its core and the core is
nicely flattened out this has a bit of a squished shape we'll see it here from
the the side it's very wide and kind of flat there's the core or the jacket and
you can see that this performed very similarly to the the 55 grain gold doubt
that you see right there almost the same distance and the wound channel actually
looks very similar as well I actually hit these right next to each other and
they're they're overlapping just a little bit but you can still get a
pretty good idea of which is which the 75 grain weights about two inches before
it starts opening up so there's a big difference between the gold dot and the
75 BTHP see yeah this one starts to open up and it's very dramatic it's
about that same one inch in width all through here until it finally starts
settling down as you get up toward like nine and a half inches it starts to to
really just turn into a narrow channel so it's performance is actually very
similar to that 55 I think the 55 overall is is better but it's
interesting to see that while I was expecting the the 75 to perform more
like an FMJ it really didn't it doesn't so much tumble it does act like a
hollow-point it opens up and it dumps a whole lot of energy pretty early on so
you know using this out hunting hogs actually wasn't that bad an idea but I
think just the fact that we can start causing damage earlier with the the gold
dot is a good reason to go for it over the other one other thing that I should
point out is that the gold dots held together in all the tracks that we have
through this gel but when it came time to fire the the BTHP match projectiles
these tend to delete behind artifacts so there's a nice chunk
of copper copper that you see in the the wound Channel right there we also have
some little ones that have sheared off and created these little channels off to
the side of the main one so yeah these do tend to break apart and the gold dots
do not at 200 yards I managed to get two hits on the block with the 75 grain boat
tail hollow points but unfortunately both of them blew right out the side so
I wasn't able to capture the remains but you can see that these are performing
actually even better at 200 yards than they were at 100 instead of taking a
while to take off these actually have blossomed quite a bit here at the
beginning and we're looking at somewhere between three-quarter inch to one inch
wide tracks carved through here and they're maintaining some of that damage
for some of these longer distances and you can see that just like in some of
the past performances that we had at a hundred yards it is peeling chunks off
so we have some little bits of copper that are in these channels but I think
that these will be solid performers again out it went at 200 yards
the match projectile that we pulled out of the gel as you can see looks very
different from the the gold dots that we had here which have this uniform
expansion and they have the little cuts that make sure that it you know kind of
is a uniform shape overall this one is kind of a mess so we do have a mushroom
to jacket and you can see down inside where the core used to sit and then this
is the the core itself which okay you can kind of you can see the shape of the
core and how it used to sit in there and instead of a uniform kind of mushroom
shape we have this weird kind of sideways squish it did make quite a mess
as you can see let's see what kind of dimensions we're working with here along
this kind of narrow access we're looking at four hundred seventy five thousands
of cross yeah it's kind of hovering around four hundred seventy five
thousand this one's a little bit trickier to measure just because it it
kind of includes that core I'll try to exclude that as much as possible but we
are definitely over half an inch so we're looking about 540 thousandths
somewhere in there we started out with seventy-five grains let's see how much
these chunks add up to sixty two point four so there's a good bit of lead that
we were able to pull out lead and copper but you saw all those little chunks that
we left in the the wound track these BTHP match projectiles always do really well
for me I have a one and eight twist rifle and then the one that we fired in
this test was a one in seven twist and this comes out to be just a tad over one
inch across with my other rifle depending on how I have it set up and
usually firing I think Varget or Reloder 15 in there I can get
about a three-quarter inch group and I've had this one tune in a little bit
tightly as well but you can see that you know we have a two round hole right
there and really these are all pretty tight nothing crazy across any of the
axes and really you know again for that lightweight rifle this is plenty this is
going to get on target at all kinds of distances and even with that
75-grain BTHP i can definitely get some damage on game
at different distances I think that overall this is probably going to be
better for target work but I now know that this will perform pretty well
on game at different distances as well so 100 yards 200 yards is still
performing quite well and even if it isn't you know the uniform beautiful
expansion that we get from the Speers at least that great big stack of 75 BTHP
that I've loaded up for defensive homestead and all that is gonna actually
take care of business if I need it to I think I'm gonna create a whole bunch of
these for different purposes out in the future but it is nice to know that the
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